Member of Audit Bureau of Circulations Principals in Pallium Ceremony i * BEWARE OF FALSE SHEPHERDS, % WARHS HEM. CARDINAL STRITCH Contonto Copjrrighted by the Catholic Preas Society, Inc. 1946— Pemiosion to reproduce, Except on Articles Otherwise Marke^ given After 12 M. Friday Following Issue Traces Catastrophes DENVER OONOLIC Of Modern Society To Godless Leaders I ^ G I S T E R Sermon al Pallium Ceremony in Denver Cathe­ The National Catholic Welfare Conference News Service Supplies The Denver Catholic Register. We dral Shows How Archbishop Shares in Have Also the International Nows Service (Wire and Mail), a Large Special Service, Seven Smaller Services, Photo Features, and Wide World Photos. (3 cents per copy) True Pastoral Office VOL. XU. No. 35. DENVER, COLO., THURSDAY, A PR IL 25, 1946. $1 PER YEAR Beware of false shepherds who scoff at God, call morality a mere human convention, and use tyranny and persecution as their staff. There is more than a mere state­ ment of truth in the words of Christ: “I am the Good Shep­ Official Translation of Bulls herd.” There is a challenge. Other shepherds offer to lead men through life but lead men astray. Christ is the only shepherd. Faithfully He leads men to God. This striking comparison of shepherds is the theme Erecting Archdiocese Is Given of the sermon by H. Em. Cardinal Samuel A. Stritch of Chicago in the Solemn Pon­ + ' + + tifical Mass in the Deliver Ca­ An official translation of the PERPETUAL MEMORY OF THE rate, first of all, the Diocese of thedral this Thursday morning, Papal Bulls setting up the Arch­ EVENT Denver, together with its clergy April 25, at which the sacred pal­ diocese of Denver in 1941 was The things that seem to be more and people, from the Province of lium is being conferred upon Arch­ Bishop Lauds released this week by the Most helpful in procuring the greater Santa Fe. This same day, by Apos­ bishop Urban J. Vehr of Denver. Rev. Archbishop Urban J. Vehr. spiritual good of Christian people tolic Constitution, we have de­ The Cardinal’s talk, recalling the When the Rt. Rev. Matthew Smith and facilitating the office of eede- tached the newly erected Diocese fact that the pallium is the symbol was recently in Rome, he was com­ siastical government, those things of, Pueblo from the Diocese of of pastoral authority, shows how Record Made missioned by the Sacred Consis- we endeavor, with energetic zeal, (TumtoPageS — Column i) Archbishop Vehr shares in the torial Congregation to carry these to effect. Guided by this policy pastoral office. bulls to Denver, and by Cardinal and influenced by the considera­ Contrasting the shepherds who In Province Caccia Dominion!, acting on be­ tion that the ecclesiastical Prov­ ManyPrelates lead men toward God ■with those half of the Holy Father, to bring inces of Santa Fe and Dubuque in godless leaders who entice them to the pallium to Archbishop Vehr. the United States of America are confusion, degradation, and death, The greatest boast of (he Metro­ It had not been possible to deliver territorially very extensive, we have the Cardinal warns against the the documents or the pallium dur­ thought it well to alter their boun­ And Clergy at politan Province of Denver is “our propaganda of godlessness. “The self-sacrificing elergy and devoted ing the war years. daries so as to establish a new plain fact is,” he asserts, “that the Both Denver bulls bear the sig­ province. Therefore, after con­ injustices which have done so much laity,” declares Bishop Joseph C. nature of the late Cardinal Alo- sulting with .our venerable broth­ Pallium Rite injury and brought such dire ca­ Willging, who as suffragan Bishop ysius Maglione, who was Papal ers, Cardinals of the Holy Roman tastrophes in modern society are of Pueblo is speaking at the clergy Secretary of State. The documents Church, in charge of Consistorial The investiture of Archbishop not things of Christian culture. luncheon following the Solemn Pon­ have been translated into English affairs: after hearing from our Urban J. Vehr with the pallium by They are the very consequences of tifical Mass and conferral of the at St. 'Thomas’ seminary. Venerable Brother Amleto Gio­ Cardinal Samual A. Stritch of Chi a refusal to live Christian princi­ sacred pallium Thursday. In be­ llie principal* in the pallium ceremony in the whose portrait appears above them. The pallium Monsignor Smith, on his recent vanni Cicognani, Titular Arch- cago brings to Denver one of the ples. The answer to the prob­ half of the entire province, the Denrer Cathedral April 25, H. Em. Cardinal Sam­ that Cardinal Stritch confers on Archbishop Vebr return from Rome, carried with bishUp of Laodicea in Phyrigia, largest assemblages of the Hier­ lems that present themselves to­ Pueblo prelate bespeaks for Arch­ uel A. Stritch of Chicago and Archbiihop Urban J. Thursday morning is a symbol of the Denver Metro­ him the pallia for the Archbish^s and Apostolic Delegate to the archy and clergy in the city’s his­ day is a return to genuine Chris­ bishop Vehr “many more years of Vehr of Denrer, are pictured ai they riiited in the politan’s participation in the Holy Father’s pastoral of Denver, Omaha, and Santa Fe, United States of America; after tory. In addition to His Eminence, tian principles. The new material­ jurisdiction over this province of Archbithop'i home following the Cardinal’s arrival authority. Cardinal Stritch was elevated to the and the bulls for the setting up duly we’ighing all the facts of the the Cardinal, there are one Arch­ isms will lead only to direr trage­ the Rockies on the top of the Wednesday. The setting is significant because Sacred College by the Supreme Pontiff at Sacred of the Archdiocese of Denver, the case, and supplying, as far as need bishop, 17 Bishops, an Abbot, and dies.” world to guide the destiny of the both prelates are closely linked with Pope Pius XII, Consistories in Rome. Diocese of Pueblo, the Archdiocese be, the consent of those whose more than 160 Monsignori and Church in the West and to direct of Omaha, and the appointment of interests may .be involved, or of priests in attendance at the Ca­ The pallium ceremony has drawn to Denver one of the largest gath­ Us by his able judgment to the ac­ the Archbishops of Omaha and those who may be under that pre­ thedral ceremonies and the clergy complishment of greater things Denver and the' Bishop of. Pueblo. sumption. we hereby, in exercise dinner being held in the Brown erings of clerical and lay leaders for the good of society.'” In the case of Denver and Omaha, Palace hotel following the Solemn ever to attend a function here. The Annual ‘Register’ Collection of our full Apostolic power, sepa- attendance includes 18 visiting The Bi.shop’s speech, a copy of two different documents were in­ Pontifical Ma.ss. More than 100 which was given to the Register volved for each city; in the case seminarians from St. Thomas’ members of the Hierarchy, 160 Monsignori and priests, 100 semi­ prior to the dinner, is published of Pueblo, a new jurisdiction in seminary are also attending both below: the Church, there were four docu­ 3 Madden Girls functions. narians, a large number of sisters, ments. Heading the list of distinguished and a throng of the laity. It was We are today honoring a great To Be Taken Up Sunday, May 5 All the bulls were beautifully visitors, m addition to the Car­ surpassed in number of visiting Arcjibishop of a great Archdiocese. dnwn up in red and black hand Advance in Life dinal, is the Most Rev. Edwin Bishops by the ceremony attendant Speaking for the suffragans, mod­ print on parchment,-to which were V. Byrne, Archbishop of Santa Fe, upon the erection of the Archdio­ esty forbids us to be boastful, but May 5 has been announced by Catholic home in th^ archdiocese. Catholic home in the archdiocese attacKed the Teaden seals that give and other members of the Hier­ cese of Denver and the raising of we feel that w«- are ble.ssed in Archbishop Urban J. Vehr as the Be good enough to assist us at this Be good enough to assist us at this the name bulla or bull to these Of Loretto Niins archy include Bishop Patrick Mc- the Most Rev. Urban J. Vehr to being a part of this complete ec­ day on which the annual collection time by renewal of your annual time by renewal of your annual documents. (Jovern of Cheyenne, Bishop_ Jos­ the rank of Archbishop Jan. 6, clesiastical organization and that wiil be taken up in all the churche.s subscription.” subscription. If some more for­ When new archdioceses or dio­ eph C. Willging of Pueblo, Bishop 1942, in the Cathedral, with the We have reason to be proud of its attainments. of the archdiocese for the support ■ The Archbishop’s letter follows: tunately circumstanced can give a ceses were formed in war times, Three Denver girls, blood sis­ Thomas Wrich of Duluth, Bishop Apostolic Delegate to the United of the Devver Catholic Register. April 18, 1946 more generous donation, it would temporary documents were is­ ters, are among the former Colo­ Louis . B. Kucera of Lincoln, Bishop States, Archbishop Amleto Gio­ God has smiled on our province Stres-sing the impori.ance and good enable us to carry the apostolate of sued by the Apostolic Delega­ radoans taking part in profession C. Hubert LeBlond of St. Joseph, vanni Cicognani, officiating. The and provided it with every ma­ Reverend Dear Fathers and the Catholic Press into more present ceremony, however, has a accomplished by the paper by in­ Beloved People: tion in Washington.